They occasionally show snippets of CoT in papers they write, e.g. for o3/o4/GPT5 models [1] or Claude 3.5 Haiku [2].

[1]: https://openai.com/index/evaluating-chain-of-thought-monitor... [2]: https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/bio...

The EU compelling banks to do business despite US sanctions seems pretty unlikely even if relations continue to degrade.

In Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Malta, Ireland obesity ranges from 38%–31% and it’s rising. On an individual level the solution is food and exercise. On a societal level there is no know solution and it’s rapidly getting worse.

It's likely simpler to just block access to the country's IP ranges (or ignore!) and move on.

[1]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxvnwkl5kgo

Or require no fines at all. It's much simpler to sell a non-sickly looking bulb at the store and other companies would converge.

> To skip all tests, we can define a `pytest_runtest_setup` function that always skips.

to saying:

> Idea: Starting a new build with a random first succession, calling random_new_succession should not increment succession, but in implementation, it does. Adjust to prevent increment. Implement fix to random_new_build not to increment succession, or test adapted to behavior.

while then doing exactly the same thing (skipping the tests)

Even without training, it's only a temporary band-aid. If the incentive for reward-hacking becomes high enough, it will simply start phrasing it in different, not-possible-to-detect ways.

[1]: https://openai.com/index/chain-of-thought-monitoring/

The downside is that some great applicants will not enter their top choice of school, and some people who aren't great fits will. But, on the other hand, the perverse incentive of spending the entirety of high-school optimising for some arbitrary metrics will dissappear. Any marginal improvement is corralated with a marginal increase in success, rather than the current system of no pay-off whatsoever, until reaching some arbitrary threshold, where one gets all the pay-off at once.

[1]: https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2022/11/06/strong-Goodhart....

Just blocking ocsp2.apple.com is probably fine if you're running anything recent-ish.

Their concern isn’t about today’s generative LLMs, it’s about tomorrow’s autonomous, goal driven AGI systems. And they clearly got presented with the arguments for the limitations of auto regressive models, but disagreed.

So, it seems a little much to place absolute confidence into it being a non-issue, because they just don’t understand something LeCun and others do. (with the same holding true the other way around)

Considering it was Meta’s policy to scan even when not mandated, it seems like an internal shift in attitude.

[1] https://fortune.com/europe/2023/10/26/eu-chat-control-csam-e...

2023-11-14: GraphCast, word leading weather prediction model, published in Science

2023-11-15: Student of Games: unified learning algorithm, major algorithmic breath-through, published in Science

2023-11-16: Music generation model, seemingly SOTA

2023-11-29: GNoME model for material discovery, published in Nature

2023-12-06: Gemini, the most advanced LLM according to own benchmarks

Those who don’t use it, like you, quickly discover the actual way of disabling it. It’s good UX design that aligns with most user’s preferences.

To use a hyperbolic example, if the median profit for stealing a phone would suddenly drop to $10, where their only value are the easily extractable raw materials, a 20-fold increase in theft would be less likely then a rapid drop in theft.

Currently there are avenues to remove iCloud lock, where licensed repair shops or Apple employees remove them for some extra cash [1], so the value of stolen iPhones is greater than the raw materials, making it attractive. But with higher regulation, that could change.

[1]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgmygb/checkm8-info-remove-i...

[1] https://analyticsindiamag.com/openais-neural-theorem-prover-...